Human society is also a level created by the Dafa, so within
this level there are bound to be standards of existence that the Fa has at this
level for sentient beings, as well as principles for human conduct at this
level. However, the Three Realms are the reverse of everything in the cosmos, so
the Fa’s principles have also provided beings at this level with reversed
principles suitable for the existence of everyday people, such as conquering the
world with military force, the victor governing the country, acquiring food by
killing, the strong being heroes, and so on. Along with concepts of a good
person, a bad person, war, etc., all of these things have given rise to ordinary
humans’ principles and human understandings. All of these are wrong when
judged by the righteous Fa-principles at high levels in the cosmos. So a
cultivator needs to let go of all the notions and principles of everyday people,
and only then can he cultivate to a high level and break out of the Three
Realms, the reverse of the cosmos. But if everyday people also reverse all these
understandings and use the righteous Fa-principles of high levels in the cosmos
to set requirements for and evaluate humankind or everything in the Three
Realms, then the Three Realms would be governed by the righteous Fa-principles,
human society would cease to exist, and the human condition would no longer be
there, either; it would be a world of Gods, and, along with this, human
illusions and the opportunity for humans to cultivate would disappear. That isn’t
allowed to happen, because high-level beings’ garbage has to drop down, and
human society is the garbage dump of the cosmos. For the beings here to exist,
there has to be a way of existence for this level, which is also requirements
and conditions for existence that Dafa created for the sentient beings here.

In high-level cosmic bodies, Great Enlightened Beings’
paradises and lives are born of righteous Fa-principles or are consummated
through cultivating with righteous Fa-principles. Everything of theirs conforms
to the righteous Fa-principles. An Enlightened Being is also the King of his
paradise, but he doesn’t rule in the way humans think of ruling—he
benevolently takes care of all sentient beings in his paradise with the
Zhen-Shan-Ren righteous Fa-principles; whereas humans’ conquering the world
with military force and the strong being heroes are the principles that the
cosmos’s Dafa has for this human level. Since the Three Realms is reversed, so
too are humans’ principles reversed understandings when compared to the
righteous Fa-principles of the cosmos. So this kind of violent behavior—"conquering
the world with military force; the strong are heroes"—has become
righteous human-principles. Because Gods control everything of humankind, and
wars, the strong, and victory and defeat are objectives that Gods want to reach,
the strong and the heroes are also anointed by Gods as "heroes" and
"the strong," and they enjoy human honors, which are also rewards for
humans. Only cultivators who cultivate a righteous Fa should break out of these
principles. So how should a Dafa cultivator who cultivates in the ordinary human
society handle all the specific things he encounters? If Dafa is being
cultivated in the ordinary human society, and the number of cultivators is
great, they have to maximally conform to the ways of the ordinary human society
while cultivating; not doing so would change the ordinary human society.
However, even though you’ve understood from the Fa-principles that I taught
you that you should cultivate while maximally conforming to the ordinary human
society, when you come across certain specific matters, you still don’t have a
clear understanding of many things, such as the matter of being a soldier.
Soldiers go into combat, and going into combat requires training. What they are
trained in are ways to kill people, and in real battles they do kill people. You
need to understand that this is wrong by the righteous Fa-principles, but it’s
not wrong by everyday people’s principles, or else humanprinciples would be righteous Fa-principles. Without suffering, people
wouldn’t be able to eliminate the karma they have generated among humans. If
humans didn’t kill, humans would have no meat to eat; and humans need to eat
meat. So humans create karma in the process of acquiring food, yet meat-eating
is only one way they generate karma. Just by merely living in this world, humans
generate karma—it’s only a question of how much. But in the human world
there are also factors that allow karma to be repaid, such as disease, natural
disasters, and war. A person’s painful death in war can eliminate karma for
that being, it can eliminate sins, and in his next incarnation he won’t have
karma and will enjoy a good life. An everyday person’s kindness isn’t
manifest in his not generating karma when acquiring food for survival, but
rather, it manifests in not keeping count of others’ wrongs, not holding
grudges, not getting jealous, not deliberately seeking revenge, not killing
people, not taking innocent life irrationally, and not harming life
intentionally. If someone’s acquiring food is merely for survival, he
generates karma but is not at fault. And wars are arranged by Gods. But if
someone takes an innocent life for some other reason, then neither the cosmos’s
righteous Fa-principles nor human principles will allow it; with such
violations, Gods will use humans to punish those who irrationally take life. If
a large being is killed by someone, then that person’s sins and karma become
enormous, especially when it’s a human being who is killed. So when someone
has generated such karma he has to pay it off. As for cultivators, when they
painfully temper themselves in arduous cultivation, they too are payingoff the karma they generated in the past. The sins and karma from the
being’s mental suffering can be paid for through the difficulty and pain of
cultivation. But as for the very real, awful situation the beings are in, their
painful enduring, and their material loss after they are killed, the cultivator
will have to, in the process of consummating everything of his own, save those
beings or repay them with blessings using the fruits of his cultivation. Then
from that perspective, the compensation the killed beings receive far exceeds
what they would have received among humans. And this has thus settled malevolent
predestined relationships with benevolent solutions. On the other hand, if the
cultivator cannot achieve Righteous Attainment and doesn’t succeed in
cultivation, in the future he will have to pay with his own life, via awful
retribution, for all the beings he killed. So the first condition is that the
cultivator has to be able to reach Consummation. For those who cannot reach
Consummation, if they take life while claiming, "I’m releasing them from
purgatory," they will be in fact doubly guilty. At present there are Dafa
practitioners who are soldiers. Being a soldier is a human profession, too;
governments of some countries, notably, require men of age to serve in the
military. Because you are cultivating among everyday people, you can, unless you
have a special reason, in this situation go along to the maximum extent with
what ordinary human society requires of you. There might not necessarily be any
wars while you are a soldier. There is no kindness (shan)in the
battle cries shouted by soldiers during their training, so a Dafa disciple can
just think of them as aimed at the evil that persecutes Dafa disciples. If a war
really breaks out, Dafa disciples might not necessarily have to go to the front
lines, since they have Master looking after them. If you really have gone to the
front lines, then perhaps it is like the karmic relationship in which Milerepa’s14
master had him do bad deeds to obtain benevolent results. Of course, I’m
discussing Fa-principles here; normally that won’t happen. But the Fa is
all-powerful, and with everything It is perfectly all-encompassing. And after
all, cultivators have Master looking after them. Everything you, a cultivator,
encounter is related to your cultivation and Consummation, or else those things
absolutely would not exist. Doing your job well in the ordinary human society is
not only for the sake of cultivation or to display Dafa disciples’ goodness
among everyday people, but also to safeguard the Fa-principles that Dafa has
created for ordinary human society.

A stable job also prevents a cultivator from being held up,
due to problems of food and shelter or survival, in his cultivation, in his
spreading the Fa without worries, or in his clarifying the truth and saving the
world’s people. In every one of society’s professions a person can
cultivate, and in each there are also people with predestined relationships
waiting to obtain the Fa.